Groove-cutting machine.



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GROOVE CUTTING MACHINE.

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HARVEY P. JONES AND HARRY S. JONES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GROOVE-CUTTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 688,251, dated December 3, 1901. Application filed June 26, 1900. Serial No. 21,498. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HARVEY P. J ONES and HARRY S. J oNEs,citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Groove-Cutting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates particularly to machines for cutting grooves in ledger-leaves; and our primary object is to provide a machine of high capacity capable of cutting or removing the sizing from leaves on lines parallel to the binding edge to produce a weakened area of bending, the sheet being left imperforate at said area and upper and lower margins being left intact to prevent tearing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken view, in side elevation, of a machine embodying our invention; Fig. 2, a view in elevation of the yieldingly-held cutting-head frame; Fig. 3, a plan view of the same; Fig. 4, a broken perspective view of the rotary stock-cylinder or planing-bed employed; Fig. 5, an enlarged broken section at line 5 of Fig. 1, showing the stock-cylinder in a different position, however, than in Fig. 1; Fig. 6, a section through the cutter-head at line 6 of Fig. 5; and Fig. '7, a fragmentary view of a ledger-leaf, showing the grooves produced by the machine.

The machine shown is adapted to receive two leaves at each revolution of the stock-cylinder. The cutting-head is brought into contact with each leaf just after the advance lateral margin thereof has passed beneath it and is lifted from the leaf when the rear lateral margin is reached.

, Arepresents the main frame of the machine; B, the stock-cylinder or rotary planing-bed; B, a driving-pulley for the cylinder B; E the main driving-shaft; B a pulley for communicating motion to the pulley B through the medium of a belt B; O, the cutting-head frame pivotally connected to the main frame at points ct; D, the cutting-head; D, D and D pulleys and a belt for communicating motion from the main shaft to the cutting-head; D", an idler for the belt D E, a rotary brush contacting with the cutting-head D and rotatin g in an opposite direction; E, E and E pulleys and a belt for communicating motion from the main shaft to said brush; F, Figs. 1 and 3, a grooved lug on the main frame; F, a bracket or projection carried by the frame 0; F a roller journaled in the end thereof; F astud projecting from the frame A and extending through a perforation in the bracket F; F, a spring confined between the bracket F and a tension-adj usting nut F on the end of said stud; F, a sliding cam movable in the slot of the lug F and contacting with the roller F F an eccentric supported from the main frame and serving to move the cam F F a handle for operatingsaid eccentric; G, bands such as are commonly employed on printing machines for holding the sheets of paper in contact with the cylinder B, and H, Fig. 3, a roller journaled in a bracket H at the upper end of the frame 0 and adapted to be engaged by cams H and H on the cylinder B.

The cuttin g-head and brush are shown supported on brackets 12 and c, respectively, carried by an adjustable slide d. The bracket 0 is itself adjustable on the slide 02 by means of bolts 0, projecting through slots 0 The cutting-head is carried by a shaft 12 and comprises a plurality of cutters b and spacing and gage disks W.

The cylinder B is shown provided with nippersf of the kind now commonly employed in certain types of printing-presses. The commonly-employed feed-board I and endless delivery-belt I are also shown.

The cam H has adjustable end portions g g, and the cam H has similar adjustable portions. This makes each cam adjustable in length and, in effect, adjustable in position relative to the cylinder 13.

The leaves are fed to and clamped upon the cylinder B just as sheets of paper are fed to certain well-known printing-presses. The leaves are disposed with their binding edges extending circumferentially, whereby the groovesare cut parallel to the binding edges. As the cylinder B rotates, the leaves (represented by J are carried thereby beneath the cutting-head. The frame 0 being under tension, the cutti n g-head presses upon theleaves, except when the cams II and II engage the roller H and rock said frame from the main frame and hold it away from the same. Thus in Fig. 1 the cam H properly should have passed from beneath the roller just after the advance lateral marginof the leaf passed from beneath the cutter-head The cutting-head should then remain in contact with the leaf till the roller is engaged by the advance end of the cam H which should occur in time to preserve a rear lateral margin intact. Similarly therearend of the cam H passes from beneath the roller just as the advance margin of the succeeding leaf emerges from the cutter, and the cutter continues in contact till the advance end of the cam H contacts with the roller H.

It will be noted thatthe adjacent surfaces of the cutting-head and stock-cylinder move in opposite directions, whereas the adjacent surfaces of the cutting-head and brush move in the same direction. The dust is discharged through a suitable chute. When desired, thecam or wedge F maybe manually operated to force the cutter-head frameffrom the main frame.

In the delicate operation of cutting glazing frompaperit isof great importance thatthe depth of grooves be carefully gaged, and this is bests accomplished by locating the gage upon the cutting-head.

It is considered within the'scope of our invention to replace the toothed cutters shownv by any. suitable cutters. Likewise the mannerof connecting the cutting-head frame to the main frame may be variously modified without departure from our invention.

to the purpose described. construction the cutting-head is equipped with groove-.cuttin g saw-teeth, which actually severand remove the glazing on one side the sheet o'f paper, thereby producing grooves ofv ing'the depth of cut, said cutting-head having a greater surface speed than said bed,sub-

stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. 'Thecombination of a rotating stock-cylinder ffor receiving sheet material, a rotating cutting-head equipped with groove-cutting teeth,yielding connection between said two members, and a cam for moving one rotating member ,away from the other to permit the lateral. margins of the sheet to pass intact beneath the cutter, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination ofamain frame,astockcylinder j on rnaled therein for receiving sheet material, a cutting-head frame, a rotary cutting-'jhead journaled therein and provided with, groove-cutting teeth, and a cam on said (Not shown) The machine may be applied to purposes similar In the preferred,

stock-cylinder for moving said cutting-head frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a bed to which the stock is secured, a rotary cutting-head comprising circularsaw-toothed groove-cutters and separating gage-disks, means for forcing said cutting-head against the stock carried by said bed till the stock is engaged by said gagedisks, and means for automatically moving the cutting-head away from the stock to permit margins to pass intact, substantially as and for thepurpose. Set forth.

5. The combination ofa main frame,a stockcylinder journaled therein, a cutting-head ,frame, a cutting-head journaled therein,

means for rotating the cylinderand cuttinghead in the same.direction,.and,means.for automatically moving said cutting-head into contactwith the stock on saidcylinder, main-H, taining itthere for atime, and then remov ing it from contact, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. The combination of a main frame, a ro tating stockicylinder, a cutting head frame movably connected with the .main frame,,.

. yielding connection. between said frames, a

rotating cutting-head,.and adjustable cams carried by saidcylinder and serving to move; said cutting-head frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. The combination of a main frame, a rotating stock-cylinder, means for clamping a IOO leaf thereto, a yieldingly-held cutting-head frame, an adjustable bracket rigidly secured thereon, and a cutting-head journaled in said bracket, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

8. The combination of a mainframe, arotating stock-cylinder, means for clamping a leaf thereto,.a yieldingly-held cutting-head frame, an adjustable bracket thereon, a second adjustable bracket, and a brush jour- IIQ naledtherein, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

9. The combination of a main frame, aretating stock-cylinder, means for securing a sheet of stock on the surface thereof,a cam carried by said cylinder, a movable cutting head frame, a roller journaled therein and ting-head frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a bed having a surface for receiving sheet material, a rotary non-shearing cutting head comprising properly-spaced cutters and a circular gage for bearing upon the stock and regulating the depth of cut, means for producing relative motion between the cutting-head and bed to cause the stock to be traversed by the cuttinghead, and means for automatically producing relative approaching and retiring movement between the cutting-head and bed whereby un grooved margins are preserved on the stock, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

12. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a rotating stock-cylinder, means for securing sheet material thereon, a rotating cutting-head, and means for automaticall y producing relative approaching and retiring movement between said cylinder and cutting-head whereby the lateral margins of the sheet are permitted to pass intact bedescribed.

HARVEY P. JONES. HARRY S. JONES. In presence of WM. R. GOULD, 0. L. DAWSON. 

